GRE Word List
JUXTAPOSE
to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)
The meaning of the word juxtapose is to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
| junta | a council or committee for political or governmental purposes |
| stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |
| vernal | of, relating to, or occurring in the spring |
| conflagration | fire |
| extrovert | a person whose personality is characterized by extroversion : a typically gregarious and unreserved person who enjoys and seeks out social interaction |
| irreverence | lack of reverence |
| freebooter | pirate |
| prime | the second of the canonical hours |
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |